To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

The three characteristics - impermanence, suffering, and non-self - are not philosophical concepts but aspects of experience to be directly observed.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

Wisdom and compassion must be developed equally and harmoniously.

When we recognize that our thoughts are just thoughts, we can choose whether or not to follow them.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Zen is not necessarily against words, but it is well aware of their limitations.

In the moment of love, awareness is very strong. Use that awareness, that strength of consciousness, to look into yourself.

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

Self-awareness is the key to freedom. The more we understand ourselves, the more we understand how to be free.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The mind itself is the maker of all happiness and misery; yet beings do not understand this and blame external conditions.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

The Buddha's path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.